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126 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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was once tlie fairest flower in Kirkham , now she is only a withered " "I tried to save her / ' lied the kind minister . " Human
rose . rep n often ature in is their a mystery corate . Men capacity who , are fierce considered as wolves as . individu This is another als , are orp
princi pro us in of , , p extent I le fear ; in , as other that well reli words as gion in , that influence with "Vanit most . " y peop Church le is gains a form ground rather amongst than a of the
however he The speaks management , out the strong _paramoxmt l , y or . The rather ide opening a mismanagement of the chap author ter tells , , and of an on inquest this poor subj seems held ect ,
on starvation the body as of an from age the d woman time , she who had , some become affirmed dependent , had died on from the
became Poor Law in , Board one "word her such appearance a meag had re , skeleton entirely -looking changed little . She old
woman Board , of , that Kirkham the uncharitable had , with mi the ght intention have supposed of preventing the Poor others Law
from deter dimensions , others getting , from an into d w asking the ere same em , for ploy condition a sh ing are her of , its reduced as lib a er kind al her and of to large scar her e - crow hearted present to
benefactions live upon . . B Two y some shillings magic per process week this was she miser was all able the expected poor allowance woman to pay A had r gain ent to ,
The buy and bread again door , was coal she , rudel had clothes "begged shut , tea , in for out her an of additional faceand she sixpence was , s but ent . in back vain to .
her miserable home y to starve with cold , and hunger . " The woman looks to me as if she had been starved to death , "
said " That the coroner the woman : " what was is _yoiir a wretched opinion , Dr economist . Griffith , " ? rep " lied that
humane man ; and he goes on to prove this to his own satisfaction , if not to that of others . at to the
effect dem A anded , good and prob will deal abl be has y adop much of ted late more We been will are written be aware written somewh that before great reforms difficulties same now
. sible have without to be grapp a widel led y with organized in large system cities of , where inspection it is almost to classif impos y the - amount of relief
poor cordin such , hindrances g and to g position ive can to , each exist character claimant as the , or poor the necessit of proper the y . place In rural are easil parishes y found ac no - ,
and their circumstances well , known ; therefore , no excuses can be languish accepted when from in either sufficiency an infirm of food old man It was or onl woman y last week is suffered we read to
. in the Times of three deaths from starvation : one an old woman third of seventy respectable , the second a poor who seamstress concealing of her twent extrem y-seven e want , and , fasted the
voraciously so long a , that that when she person food died . was In , at a leng Christian th broug country ht to her these , she are ate sad so
facts We to had dwell marked upon . several passages for extracts , all tending to *
126 Notices Of Books.
126 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1862, page 126, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041862/page/54/
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